Alaska's System for Monitoring Compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

Pursuant to Section 223(1)(15) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and 28 CFR Part 31.303(f), states are required to describe their plans and procedures for annually monitoring compliance with the Act. Alaska's monitoring plan was developed by the Justice Center of the University of Alaska Anchorage in 1988 under contract with the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (DFYS).Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Family and Youth ServicesI. The Monitoring Plan / A. Identification of Monitoring Universe / B. Classification of the Monitoring Universe / C. Inspection of Facilities / D. Data Collection and Verification / II. Barriers to Implementation of the Monitoring System / III. Violation Procedures / Appendix. Timetables for Completion of Monitoring Task

JJDP Monitoring Data — 1988: JJDP Violations and Juvenile Detention Counts for Lockups, Jails, Adult Correctional Facilities and Juvenile Detention Centers

This data supplement to the 1988 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report (Mar 1990) presents data on 1988 violations in Alaska of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), which mandates removal of status offenders and nonoffenders from secure detention and correctional facilities, sight and sound separation of juveniles and adults, and removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups.Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Family and Youth ServicesJJDP Violations — 1988 / Offense Type by Duration of Detention — 1988 / All Facilities / Lockups / Jails / Correctional and Youth Facilitie

Lageos orbit decay due to infrared radiation from Earth

Infrared radiation from the Earth may be the principal reason for the decay of Lageos' orbit. The radiation heats up the laser retroreflectors embedded in Lageos' aluminum surface. This creates a north-south temperature gradient on the satellite. The gradient in turn causes a force to be exerted on Lageos because of recoil from photons leaving its surface. The delayed heating of the retroreflectors due to their thermal inertia gives the force a net along-track component which always acts like drag. A simple thermal model for the retroreflectors indicates that this thermal drag accounts for about half the observed average along-track acceleration of -3.3 x 10 to the -10 power m/sec squared. The contribution from the aluminum surface to this effect is negligible. The infrared effect cannot explain the large observed fluctuations in drag which occur mainly when the orbit intersects the Earth's shadow

Mechanical Improvised Explosive Device Removal in the Urban Environment

The safe removal and disposal of conventional weapons from civilian populated areas in a post conflict scenario is fraught with dangerous, complex and wide-ranging challenges. The worldwide proliferation of improvised explosive devices has added to the existing burden of landmine clearance already being undertaken by various organizations. Part of the solution to these challenges is to remove improvised explosive devices using mechanical methods to reduce the likelihood and consequence of the risks that personnel face when carrying out this extremely hazardous task. The mechanical removal of improvised explosive devices is an emerging methodology that is based on an established model of mechanical demining operations. While in a developmental stage, the author sought to engage with current practitioners, use recent personal experience and study the established demining model in an effort to shape the emergence and evolution of mechanical improvised explosive device removal in order to establish best practice guidance that could be shared within the conventional weapons disposal industry. The results from this research study have identified focused topics that support an operational framework on which to base mechanical IED removal operations in the urban environment. From this research study it is recommended that best practice guidance is used by organizations in the shaping of mechanical IED removal operations in the urban environment and that this best practice guidance is underpinned by a risk assessment giving consistency to safe working practices

Personal cinema in family crisis situations

Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979.Bibliography: leaves 24-25.by David Allen Parry.Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979

Adaptive Smoothing for Trajectory Reconstruction

Trajectory reconstruction is the process of inferring the path of a moving object between successive observations. In this paper, we propose a smoothing spline -- which we name the V-spline -- that incorporates position and velocity information and a penalty term that controls acceleration. We introduce a particular adaptive V-spline designed to control the impact of irregularly sampled observations and noisy velocity measurements. A cross-validation scheme for estimating the V-spline parameters is given and we detail the performance of the V-spline on four particularly challenging test datasets. Finally, an application of the V-spline to vehicle trajectory reconstruction in two dimensions is given, in which the penalty term is allowed to further depend on known operational characteristics of the vehicle.Comment: 25 pages, submitte

The 'void' in Simone Weil and the 'broken middle' in Gillian Rose : the genesis of the search for salvation

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